Paul Gigot Smacks Down Katrina Vanden Heuvel: 'You Got a Huge Expansion of Federal Government - How Is That Working Out?'
There was a truly delicious moment on ABC's This Week Sunday that should be mandatory viewing for all liberal media members.
After the perilously liberal editor of The Nation magazine, along with Obama's former domestic policy adviser, blamed all the nation's problems on Republican obstruction in Congress, the Wall Street Journal's Paul Gigot struck back saying, "The first two years [Obama] had open field, Democratic, vast Democratic majorities. You got what you wanted. You got a huge expansion of federal government. How is that working out?" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
KEVIN MADDEN, MITT ROMNEY CAMPAIGN ADVISER: Well, if you're looking at how we spur job creation and we spur economic growth that's going to help everybody, and particularly women, you have to look at how the private sector has a role in that. That's the most important way to help get the economic growth that we need to help working women, women who are single parents. That's the most important thing.
And I think the big contrast that we're going to see in this -- in this campaign is whether or not you want to -- you believe that you should put all of your faith in the government or whether or not you can put faith into the private sector and provide more certainty so that greater job creation and greater prosperity helps everybody.
(CROSSTALK)
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL, EDITOR THE NATION: No one's talking about putting all one's faith in government, but government has an important role to play in shared prosperity. Private-public partnerships are terrific. The administration wanted it with the infrastructure bank, which would have put thousands of people to work. But the Republicans are roadblocks in that process.
(CROSSTALK)
MELODY BARNES, FORMER OBAMA DOMESTIC POLICY ADVISER: ... to Katrina's point, all through this -- this first term, what I saw, sitting in the White House, is that one policy initiative after another to try and spur job growth, to try and help the states, on jobs often and frequently occupied by women, was pushed back on by Congress. Efforts around equal pay pushed back on by Congress. About seven, nine Republicans voted for that initiative when the president signed it the first piece of legislation he signed when he walked in the door.
(CROSSTALK)
PAUL GIGOT, EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR WALL STREET JOURNAL: We've had the largest expansion of federal government spending since the nineteen, I mean, enormous that I can remember in this administration. The first two years it had open field, Democratic, vast Democratic majorities. You got what you wanted. You got a huge expansion of federal government. How is that working out for the economic security of women?
VANDEN HEUVEL: But, Paul...
GIGOT: It hasn't. Real incomes are down.
Stop bringing facts into the discussion, Paul. You know how liberals hate that.
Beyond which, their answer always is that if given four more years to tax and spend, incomes will start going up.
It's a broken record.
Regardless, nice job, Paul. Bravo!
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key phrase I saw
Submitted by dmacleo on Sun, 04/15/2012 - 2:27pm.
important role to play in shared prosperity.
that says it all IMO
Rats running the place
Submitted by kiwikit on Sun, 04/15/2012 - 4:42pm.
started in 2007 when Nancy took over not in 2009. For five years the 'RATs have been doling out money helter skelter for whatever their compatriots wanted. And what is supposed to control spending? BUDGETS, the preparation of which is the only required task of legislators, and which has been eschewed by the RATs for more than 1,000 days. Not doing that job should be grounds for denying any rep / sen grounds for re-running.
“Shared prosperity”
Submitted by needle on Sun, 04/15/2012 - 8:32pm.
Meaning: our prosperity which we are forced to share with our prodigal government.
- Looking forward to the self-annihilation of the Manipulated Stories Machine.
Exactly
Submitted by Galvanic on Sun, 04/15/2012 - 10:04pm.
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL, EDITOR THE NATION: No one's talking about putting all one's faith in government, but government has an important role to play in shared prosperity.
"The Nation" was founded by socialists, for socialists.
Vandel Heuvel's statement is may sound innocuous to casual observers in the audience, but we know that it is about "economic justice' managed by Big Government controlled by arrogant faux-intellectuals like herself.
Increasing
Submitted by fivestring_assassin on Sun, 04/15/2012 - 2:39pm.
the Federal Debt from 9 trillion dollars to 16 trillion dollars is a real successful policy
Generations will be paying it off...the debt service alone is unmanageable
And she blames Republicans....???
You too, Stop bringing facts
Submitted by motherbelt on Sun, 04/15/2012 - 5:59pm.
You too, Stop bringing facts into the discussion!
They don't need no stinking facts!
Liberals know the truth. The facts are a conspiracy.
The DemWits have a long history
Submitted by Bodini on Sun, 04/15/2012 - 3:30pm.
The DemWits have a long history of taking care of women. Remember JFK and Marilyn Monroe, LBJ and his "missionary work" on Saturday nights in Baltimore's combat zone, Teddy K's little swim at Chappaquiddic, Peanut Carter's Playboy confessions of lust for other women, Bill Clinton's trysts with Gennifer, Paula, Monica etc., Rev. Al rolling Tawana in a bag of sh*t so he could sue a white man, Rev. Jackson's love child, Al Gore's big kiss followed up with his divorce from Tipper, John the Pretty Boy's love child with his campaign photographer while his wife was dieing from cancer, ... etc, etc, etc!!!!
Long Histort
Submitted by BarnicleBill on Mon, 04/16/2012 - 7:47am.
You forgot Anthony Weiner
Well, Melody, one question for you.
Submitted by UpNorth on Sun, 04/15/2012 - 2:58pm.
After you state this, "to Katrina's point, all through this -- this first term, what I saw, sitting in the White House, is that one policy initiative after another to try and spur job growth, to try and help the states, on jobs often and frequently occupied by women, was pushed back on by Congress", the only question can be, why didn't you call out the democrats who refused to sign on to all of these wonderful initiatives? The Republicans couldn't stop you and Baracka, so why did the dems stop him? The Republicans didn't control anything until after the 2010 elections.
Idiots
Submitted by TangoUniform on Sun, 04/15/2012 - 3:17pm.
These idiots have to continue to spew this ridiculous garbage or they would never get to be guests on the Sunday shows. They have a whole week to come up some inane talking point. Keep hammering that point, Paul, et al, that the Dimocrats had full control for two years. But it was Bush's fault. They'll be ringing that bell for twenty years...........
"shared prosperity'
Submitted by ant on Sun, 04/15/2012 - 3:30pm.
So in terms of private-public relations we are 'sharing' now? Cool, I can't wait till Obama funds my trip to Hawaii, or maybe I can get some Colombian hookers on the government's tab, Haircuts for everyone at the Senate's barbershop, medical testing for free for everyone at the Congress' free medical clinic, jet rides and chocolate-covered strawberries courtesy of Pelosi's office. C'mon...where is it? We're waiting, Van Douche-al...where's the sharing?
Shared??
Submitted by Joe W. on Sun, 04/15/2012 - 3:33pm.
Do we get "shared prosperity" through "shared sacrifice"? All of this "sharing" sure sounds an awful lot like socialism, does it not??
I would like someone to
Submitted by WarEagle66 on Sun, 04/15/2012 - 5:55pm.
I would like someone to address the "Inequality of Effort" that I see.
Too many people not doing anything and relying on others to "share THEIR sacrifice".
Where is that asked?
It really bothers me that
Submitted by Ryan Mc. on Sun, 04/15/2012 - 4:33pm.
It really bothers me that Romney's guy Kevin Madden says we have to put faith in the private sector then says it again and nothing else. There was no argument, no distinguishment from Obama or plan of Romney's. Saying private sector private sector without more isn't going to resonate with anyone. They better get a lot tougher than that if they want to win the white house. When the extremely mild Gigot sounds like the firebrand on the panel, you are a total whimp.
Same with Gillespie on FoxNews Sunday!
Submitted by Newsbubba on Sun, 04/15/2012 - 5:14pm.
Question was, "Why won't Mr. Romney show 23 years of tax returns?"
His answer was, "yada, yada, yada. He will show two years like McCain and others have."
Answer should have been, "We will match Obama's tax returns as far back as he is willing to go; we will show Romney's college transcripts, his birth certificate, his original SSN card, and any other personal information that Obama will show."
You show me your's, and I'll show you mine!
Instead he totally missed that opportunity.
And that is precisely why the Republican campaigns ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sun, 04/15/2012 - 5:30pm.
are continually getting the sh*t kicked out of them, media partisanship aside.
If, and that is a huge if, they even muster up a comeback, it has all the force and power of an effeminate Obama pitch as demonstrated.
Not to mention it comes nowhere near the plate, as represented by ANY of the core issues that Obama and his administration are weak on.
Same goes for the Republican 'controlled' House.
Boehner? Boehner?
Disgusting twerps.
MD
You are right, matthew.
Submitted by motherbelt on Sun, 04/15/2012 - 6:32pm.
You are right, matthew. Republicans keep allowing the opposition to set the terms of the discussion, just like Reince Priebus did in his "war on women" discussion with Thomas Roberts. Rather than driving home the fact the Democrats took the religious liberty argument and transformed it into an "anti-woman" issue, he simply said "There's no war on women."
In a separate interview on Bloomberg TV, Priebus found his cojones for a minute and said this:
“This started as a war against the Vatican that this president pursued,” the RNC chairman said, referring to the Obama administration’s mandate that health care insurance provided by religious institutions cover contraception for women. “He still hasn’t answered Archbishop Dolan’s issues with Obama-world and Obamacare.”
Why aren't Republicans hammering home this point over and over again???
Instead, they sit back and let the Democrats and their "willing accomplices in the media" continue to drive the "war on women" meme.
Bingo!
Submitted by Model850 on Sun, 04/15/2012 - 5:45pm.
Every answer regarding Romney's tax returns should include your challenge. If it accomplished nothing else it would be fun to watch the WH and its media shills spin themselves into a dizzy frenzy.
You are absolutely right.
Submitted by needle on Sun, 04/15/2012 - 8:48pm.
However, mostly like it would force the White House and the MSM – what’s the difference, really – to change the subject to the next completely irrelevant issue on Media Matter’s agenda.
The GOP war on Eskimos?
In any case, you can bet the Romney campaign does not the balls to do anything nearly as bold as this; that would take someone one who was genuinely conservative, not a "severely conservative" RINO.
- Looking forward to the self-annihilation of the Manipulated Stories Machine.
right on Needle*
Submitted by cajun2 on Sun, 04/15/2012 - 9:01pm.
Can you imagine a War against Cajuns?
Why won't the cajuns assimilate into "ordinary" society? Why do we insist on being "a special group"?
They will attack us for our awful music that has its own category in music awards. We don't even speak proper English. We have already been attacked by the greenies because we live in the Atchafalaya Basin. We are relentless in our pursuit of crawfish. We actually kill things like alligator, squirrles, rabbits, and have multiple websites to share those wonderful receipes of "wild things". Not to mention our economy is based on commercial fishing and the oil and gas industry. That angers a whole bunch of activist groups.
Did you know that opening day of squirrel hunting season is an official school holiday? Mardi Gras is two weeks of drunken revelry. And I won't dare put in writting to explain a "couchon de lait".
If this does start, dem libs may be in serious bataille
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Amen!
Submitted by almostacowboy on Mon, 04/16/2012 - 12:07am.
.
I really wish Romney would
Submitted by ohio granny on Mon, 04/16/2012 - 10:15am.
I would love to see Romney hammer Obama on the lack of transparency of his college years, his passport records, financial aid, birth certificate, etc. Obama would become a blathering idiot if he had to try to answer these questions.
"Private-public partnerships are terrific"
Submitted by Newsbubba on Sun, 04/15/2012 - 5:08pm.
That's a "modern-day" way of saying, "I love Fascism!"
Van dumb
Submitted by mmilesll on Sun, 04/15/2012 - 5:17pm.
This woman is on a completely different planet. Since she has never worked a day in her life-don't think their is anybody dumb enough to marry her even with all her money-and it shows. She continues to think that the US will always have money to help the "lower classes". Doesn't matter if it works or not.
Shared Prosperity
Submitted by OldmanRick on Sun, 04/15/2012 - 5:56pm.
Shared prosperity is just another progressive's term for social justice - redistribution of wealth.
You GO Gigot!!!
Submitted by amyshulk on Sun, 04/15/2012 - 7:44pm.
Katrina is a sniping pit bull, so far left, I'm afraid she'll fall off the limb, and having just a Romney surrogate and Gigot to counter her snide asides? Well I loved it. Gigot slapped her down but good!!!
btw - wasn't there a bunch of news articles right after the meltdown about how men were being dropped in *favor* of women, and that women were leading the surge for new hires?
Ronald Reagan
Romney, et. al., is playing the dems' game...
Submitted by mom_rox on Sun, 04/15/2012 - 8:05pm.
help everybody, and particularly women ???
that's just pathetic. How does Romney's policy "particularly" help women instead of, oh, let's say, men? If you're going to play their game, then you need to point out the absurdity of identity politics. Hey, Mr. Romney, your policies had better help out all Americans regardless of gender, race, creed, etc.
Horrible Choice
Submitted by Question_Assumptions on Sun, 04/15/2012 - 9:25pm.
Katrina Vanden Heuvel is one of the worst guests I've ever seen on This Week because she offers no insight about anything. All she does is repeat talking points. They could prep a parrot with the left-wing talking points du jour and it would be a more interesting guest than she is.
I"d watch that,
Submitted by Lipton on Mon, 04/16/2012 - 12:36pm.
and I am not watching now.
But you should see her pedal that tiny bike around the table.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 04/16/2012 - 12:49pm.
It's so cute.
Happy Emancipation Day, DC!
Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 04/16/2012 - 12:53pm.
Now please do something about Marion Barry... that wasn't what anyone had in mind.